On December 1 at 12:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Moscow venue of the Valdai Club will host the presentation of the report titled “Russophobia and ‘The Cold War Plus’”.
Richard Sakwa, the author of the new Valdai report, characterises Russia–West relations as a “cold war plus”. Today, geopolitical confrontation is complemented by cancel culture and the denial of Russia, while Russophobia is reproduced and exacerbated by the preservation of the Cold War as a model of international interaction. The author believes that the narrative of an external threat helps divert attention from economic stagnation, institutional weakness, the erosion of state capacity, and the crisis of leadership in the European Union and allied countries. “Warnings of war served to maintain bloc cohesion while appeasing Trump’s increasingly militaristic administration,” the report says.
How does Russophobia manifest itself today? How does it affect Russia–West relations? What will the strengthening of European militarism lead to? And what are the prospects for the NATOisation of Europe? Participants in the presentation of the Valdai report will address these and other questions.
Speakers:
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Richard Sakwa, Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Kent; Honorary Professor of the Faculty of Political Science at Moscow State University
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Natalia Tanshina, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor; Leading Research Fellow, IIS MGIMO University; Professor in the Department of World History, ISS, Presidential Academy; Executive Secretary of the Academic Council of the RMHS
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Alexander Filippov, Laboratory Head, Centre for Fundamental Sociology, HSE University
Moderator:
Working languages: Russian, English.
Information for the media
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The Valdai Discussion Club was established in 2004. It is named after Lake Valdai, which is located close to Veliky Novgorod, where the Club’s first meeting took place.
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